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Toto nee-chan
Japanese Drama - 2016, 156 episodes8.3
The eldest daughter of the Kohashis, Tsuneko, was 11 years old when her father Takezo died of tuberculosis. Taking her father’s teachings about the importance of ordinary life to heart, she became ‘Toto One-chan’,…
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes8.3
Over the course of the Showa era, Yakumo, enters the alluring and mysterious world of rakugo, (a traditional Japanese comic performance art) he forges a very strong friendship with the impulsive and bashful Yurakutei,…
Ranman
Japanese Drama - 2023, 130 episodes8.2
Mantaro comes from a rich family in Kochi who owns a brewery but because of him being sickly, he becomes the target of bullying. As a child, he has been fascinated with plants and decides to quit school so as to head…
Idaten
Japanese Drama - 2019, 47 episodes8.2
Follow up the story of 52 years and covers three editions of 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics where it features the two lead characters Kanakuri Shisou as the first Japanese man to…
Massan
Japanese Drama - 2014, 150 episodes8.1
It is based on the true story of Taketsuru Masataka and his Scottish wife Rita Cowen. Masataka is the first Japanese person to produce whisky in Japan when he opened his own distillery in Hokkaido in 1934. The title…
Saigo no Kizuna: Okinawa Hikisakareta Kyodai
Japanese Special - 2011, 1 episodes8.1
This drama will be set after the Pacific War in Okinawa and is a documentary about siblings who tragically fight between each other as enemies as a part of both the Japanese and American armies. Sato will play a young…
Seiten wo Tsuke
Japanese Drama - 2021, 41 episodes8.0
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and…
Manpuku
Japanese Drama - 2018, 151 episodes8.0
The 99th Asadora follows the life of Tachibana Fukuko, a young woman who tries to survive tough times in Osaka with her husband from before WWII to the rapid economic development era. Together they overcome various setbacks…
Manatsu no Shonen: 19452020
Japanese Drama - 2020, 8 episodes8.0
Ryuji, Satoru and Atsushi are friends in high school. They are classmates in the 2nd grade class B. They appear like troubled students, but they are not. They are actually country boys. When they are at their secret…
Hiroshima Showa Nijuunen Hachigatsu Muika
Japanese Special - 2005, 1 episodes8.0
The story is narrated by Yajima Toshiaki at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. A story during the summer of 1945 (60 years earlier). At one time a row of shophouses and private homes lined the vicinity. That was where…
Hiroshima
Japanese Movie - 19538.0
Brilliant retelling of the Day in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped. A bit heavy handed at times, yet extremely realistic (source: IMDb)
Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Japanese Movie - 20077.9
Thirteen years afterwards, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami, one of the two leading female characters…
The Day's Organ
Japanese Movie - 20198.0
Set towards the end of World War II, Itakura Kaede, who leads kindergartners, and Nonomiya Mitsue, who enjoys music, persuade the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned…
Umechan Sensei
Japanese Drama - 2012, 156 episodes8.0
The story is set in the devastated area of Kamata, Tokyo, in 1945 just after the end of the war. Horikita plays Shimomura Umeko, the youngest of 3 siblings whose father is a doctor at a university hospital. Compared…
When Will You Return?
Japanese Movie - 20177.9
Ashimura Tomoko types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but she then succumbs to a disease. Her grandchild Osamu then begins to collect her memoirs. He learns about the love between his grandparents…
Hiyokko 2
Japanese Special - 2019, 4 episodes7.9
This special drama follows the lives of Mineko and her friends in 1970, 2 years after the ending of "Hiyokko."
Beppin-san
Japanese Drama - 2016, 151 episodes7.9
It is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's…
Twenty-Four Eyes
Japanese Movie - 19547.9
The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…
Agri
Japanese Drama - 1997, 156 episodes7.9
It chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by…
Junjo Kirari
Japanese Drama - 2006, 156 episodes7.9
The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl who is interested in becoming a jazz…
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